“This moment will just be another story someday.”
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Life quotes
“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The
“Stories never really end…even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
“Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.”
“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
“People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”
“Experience life in all possible ways — good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.”
“Be — don’t try to become.”
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.”
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
“Deadlines just aren’t real to me until I’m staring one in the face.”
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.”